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What Macmillan was objecting to was the speedup in the Common Market's plans to lower its internal tariff walls while raising barriers against other traders. A plan before the Common Market already proposes to chop internal tariffs 20% in July instead of the planned 10%; at the same time, external tariffs in West Germany and the Benelux countries, with which Britain does $850 million worth of trade annually, will rise sharply. Macmillan's fear was that the move would only widen the gap between the Common Market and the Outer Seven, divide Europe into two economic camps...
...operator of the cesium clock need only tune his waves until he gets absorption. Then he will know accurately the frequency (i.e., vibrations per second) of his waves, which can be displayed on an oscilloscope and used as reference scale. In effect, the cesium clock permits scientists to chop time into exact fractions of microseconds...
...beautiful harbor to the city. As his launch passed a line of 14 freshly painted naval vessels,* the crews raised their white caps high and gave a traditional Brazilian navy greeting-seven "Vivas." An informal flotilla of small craft trailed in Ike's wake, a swarm of helicopters chop-chopped overhead, and along the seawall a long formation of white-uniformed sailors and officers stood under the blooming mimosa trees, at rigid attention...
...been frankest in facing the prospect that more defense might cost more money. The nation must increase the "portion of our national resources" devoted to missile programs, he says. Symington, Harry Truman's onetime (1947-50) Air Force Secretary, claims that drastic reorganization of the defense structure could chop defense costs by $10 billion - 25% of the present defense budget...
...corpse on a carpet that this is not coincidence. And when it turns out that most of the men on Adrian Messenger's list have died by violent accidents, even the authorities are clever enough to make the same deduction. The pages that follow are full of top-chop cloak-and-Luger writing, and Sleuth Anthony Gethryn has some uncomfortable moments before he tracks down an adversary fully as brilliant and soulless as that slippery Conan Doyle wrongo, Professor Moriarty...